Make Money Blogging

As you may know by now, getting high quality traffic to your website in today’s internet world can be extremely hard!

 However, making money online,  you have to research ways for the millions of internet users to find your website out of the billions of websites that exist today.

Trying to get your site highly ranked on the search engines out of the other billion people trying to do the same thing can be hard and overwhelming. Fortunately there are ways to get the high targeted traffic you need to survive to your site. There are many ways to get traffic to your site but I have found that there is a combination of things that work best!  The first method I use is by building Google Sniper sites.  However the second one and the one I want talk about today, requires little money but can have amazing results. It is called Article Marketing.

Doubt might creep in and you are asking yourself,  how is an article going to bring traffic to my site?  It’s simple people all over the web are  seeking informative information.  So you use articles that are search engine optimized  about your business using keywords that the search engines will pick up. Doing this puts your article on search engines and in front of real potential buyers who will read your article and visit your site.

Below are the top 4 reason’s why you need to be engaging in this form of marketing your website.

1. More People See Your Site

When your articles are professionally written,you have the ability to show them off! You can put them on your website and post them to many article directories that all will link back to your website.  Submit your article to all of the popular ezines and message boards and soon enough you’ll have hundreds of visitors on your website.

2. You can Post them for Free

Posting your articles to all of these websites and directories are Free.  Your main responsibility is to make sure they are keyword rich and professionally written.

3. Get A Higher Search Engine Ranking

On your website link your article so that the search engine robots can crawl your site and pick up on it.  Doing this will get you ranked higher, the more you write the more you move up!

4. Great Articles Lead to Great Reputations

By having your articles written by professionals they will give your website the sense of professionalism. This will leave great impressions on the visitors and that will make them eager to do business with you. That also encourages them to spread the word about your website bring in more visitors! You want to be seen as the best in your field and a true expert!

You may be asking yourself:

How can I automate the process of submitting articles to numerous article directories and streamline the process? 

I am not a good writer, where can I get assistance with articles for my chosen niche?

My recommendation is that you take a long look at Mass Article Control.  Both of these questions are answered for you and I can tell you from experience that it has made my life much easier and profitable!

Google Sniper Works if You Will Just Give It a Chance

I just created my 4th Google Sniper site and by gosh it really does get easier with time.  Just as I have started getting traffic and some sales to my 3rd site, I have not created my 4th.

I can honestly say that once I decided on the niche and the keywords, creating the blog took me about 1 hour.  This is turning into just like a washing machine only with this you are truly blogging to make money.

Rinse and repeat cycle!

It gets easier as you begin to tweak and learn.  Don’t expect blog number 1 to do fantastic!  However if you follow the Snipersteps, it will begin to payoff.   My profit margins are high and you want to know why.  I am using clickbank to market others products.  I buy a URL ($10.00) with blueHost.  I pay blueHost $10.00 a month.  That is it.  $20.00 a month. 

For blog posts, I am using the articles from Mass Article Control.  It has THOUSANDS in many different niches.

This stuff works.  My goal is to have 10-20 sites up and running within the next 3-4 months.  Heck at 10$ a site and about one hour to create, I’d be crazy NOT to!!

My advice.  Don’t get discouraged and do not quit.  It takes time but will work and you will continue to learn what does work and what does not.

Want more information check out the post: The Complete Circle of Blogging To Make Money is Now Complete!

Ever heard of the song entitled “Wll the Circle Be Unbroken”?   In the world of affiliate marketing, I have found the tool I need to complete the circle.  If you are like me, you have found tools to help you  create your money making blog, market your products with articles and host your blog easily. 

If you don’t have your own product, the real hard part is finding the niche markets that be profitable and not so competitive that it is impossible to find traffic.  I now have found a product that I am thrilled to tell you about.  It is called,  Micro Niche Finder and it very thoroughly researches for you niche markets.  Not only does it check for search engine traffic, it also checks to see if products exist the match the search engine traffic. 

If finding profitable niche’s is your problem area then this is the tool you need to complete the circle.  It it is a must have!

James Jones has just filmed 5 videos that show you 5 different ways anyone can profit from little known Under-the-Radar niche markets.

It does not cost a thing to check these videos out on his website at: Micro Niche Finder.  I believe you will be impressed.  I was and I now am using it to help me build my new Google Sniper sites!

Today anyone who has writing ability or is dreaming to be a writer has written a blog in the net. There is blog software that is simple and easy to use and a technically inclined and challenged individuals can easily acquire a blog online.

Many poeple are using blogs to make money online.  If this is one of your goals.  This is a great way to build a following and sell products or ideas.  At the bottom of this post and throughout this blog you see references to the tools I use to build my blogs (of which there are numerous).  Be sure to consider these tools as you research the best way to build your online business.

For some individuals, blogs are their projects of every day living, as they talk about their daily episodes as well as make tribute to friends and family. Furthermore, blogs assume a profound meaning written to compose and assemble political statements, endorse a product, supply information on research, and even offer tutorials. Any subject that are of your interests, you can be sure that someone has written a blog about it.

Blogs are now being written by musicians, politicians, sports figures, novelists, newscasters as well as other known figures. It is this blog fever that has raised controversy. The fact that anyone can compose and regarding any subject matter under the sun, complaints about certain write-ups are an issue. In a lot of blogs, names are being mentioned; do bear in mind that although you are entitled to write anything that interests you in a blog, you have to be very careful and take in a lot of responsibility. Do not make any statements which can become controversial; or else, be very prepared.

Why a Blog?

1.For personal acquaintances, relationships and hobby. A person can write a blog about his daily activities, what’s going on with his life as his way of telling his family and friends the things that goes on in his life. Likewise, one may also write a blog just so he can express what he feels about himself, or about a certain subject matter that is of interest to him.

2.Topical. Some blogs are committed to a precise topic, like computer hardware or politics. These are frequently read like magazines.

3.For marketing. Corporations are too, into blogging; when well written and implemented, this kind of blog can be a powerful instrument for business communications, forming eagerness and anticipation regarding their products and services offered, or used as tool within the company, keeping employees well informed about company issues and news.

Why someone else’s software?

A lot of Web designer and creators will laugh at the belief and idea of utilizing the software of someone else. This is can be correct especially when each software greatly differs from the particular requirements that a client may have. Yet on the other hand, when it refers to a Weblog software, there is no reason for apprehension in the use of a package that is pre-written, as most packages were developed through years of study; not just knocked together over a couple of days.

In addition, one may study its feature set. For a developer, it would take a lot of time and effort to write and compose from “nothing at all” every single feature in the Weblog software packages of today. For most people, a blog is there for the main reason that chooses to publish or make known your literature and texts on the Web, so you want to spend your time more on writing than coding.

Hosted Services

If one wishes to start broadcasting on the Web, yet does not have web hosting, one can consider looking into a hosted service, which includes Blogger, TypePad, Live Journal, and more.

These services are operated or handled for an individual, so there is no need to concern one about technical upkeep of one’s Weblog; instead, one can concentrate on his blog’s appearance and content. In just minutes, after signing for an account, one can readily start his own blog. Many such services are offered free, such as blogger. TypePad charges a minimal amount for monthly service fee.

Self-Hosted

When one has Web hosting on hand, or is eager to buy hosting, in which one feesl that the advantage will prevail over the problems of keeping up your own blog connection and installation, then you may want to take into account a package that is self-hosted, which includes Movable Type, Textpattern and WordPress.

Other hosting companies did construct the process of installation easier, permitting installation with just a click from a control panel that is browser-based. It is important that you check with a hosting company so you can view if this function is offered. Similar to hosted services, some self hosted packages are made available either for free or for a certain fee which is dependent on the type of package that you choose as well as the basis why you are using it.

Here is the list of tools that I use to build and market my money blogs.

Blogging Tools
Blog to the Bank 3.0
Google Sniper

Hosting
blueHost

Marketing
Mass Article Control
Magic Article Rewriter and Submitter

Drive Traffic To Your Blog With These 8 Article Writing Tips

*Write a review on a book, experience, movie, radio show, or something you really liked. People like sincere reviews.

*Write tips on something you really know. You don’t have to do much research. It can be something you heard about recently, some opinions and advice, any bit of inputs. People love tips!

*Pick out a few questions people want to know the most. Do a little bit of research and answer their questions. They’ll love you for it.

*Write like you are talking. It can be very casual and may be more interesting for people to read. You don’t have to be an expert in writing, but just write whatever comes to mind.

*Choose a topic that is in less competition with other articles. Instead of home based business, you could write “how to start a home based business” or “How to find an online business that really works”.

*Give readers an introduction to what you’re going to tell them. Once you caught their attention, tell them in the body paragraph.

*Write a brief paragraph about you at the end of the article. This will help people know you better. If you are writing more articles, what is a better way than introduce yourself first?

*Add a link back from your article to your blog to increase traffic and potential sales.

The duo of Blogging and Pinging is not a singing group. It is a way to attract visitors to your website. If you are attempting to make money blogging this is essential and more importantly FREE.

At this point, we all know what a blog is. So what is a ping?

Pinging is a method of informing others that your blog exists and also lets them know when a new post is made. Putting blogging and pinging together is extremely effective at getting your blog, no matter how big or small, indexed by the major search engines.

Some may say ‘who cares, I can get my site indexed now’.   Blogging and pinging solves the problem of  having to wait for spiders to come index your site which can take weeks.

All of us that are blogging to make money need all the automated help we can get and pinging is one way to notify the world that we have new content.

Check out sites like:

Ping o Matic

Ping Goat (love the name)

Also, your blogging platform should also give you a place to list websites that you want to ping everytime you add a new post.

For example, WordPress gives you a place to add these sites by clicking on settings/writing and update services at the bottom of the page.

What are vlogs exactly? The general term refers to a number of web pages that choose to use videos as journal entries instead of articles. Presented in a reverse chronological order, they find a great support in the use of photos and text; depending on the nature of the videos, there may be need of additional comments to make information relevant. The great part about vlogs is that they perfectly meet the present-day tendency of communicating via the Internet on a very familiar basis: when you see the person behind the text, the blog seems to actually live in from of you.

Most video blogs use some form of web syndication in order to upload and spread the videos online and at the basis of every transmission lies the RSS technology or format. Presently, vlogs, may even be accessed on mobile devices such as pods and mobile phones. Though, the very vlog phenomenon started as a collective attempt, there are many individual video logs that are authored by people who make a hobby out of it. It is a good thing to know that content contributors can get to be paid for their share in the process: on the sole condition that they upload viable material.

Let’s take the case of the Google video blogs that enjoy massive success all around the world, it is a collective effort of keeping in touch with people that are thousands of kilometers away from you. Uploading and sharing videos is an instant procedure on http://googlevideo.blogspot.com/, not to mention that Google also provides a directory of vlogs where you may find whatever you’re looking for. A similar example of a vlog collection that is also administered by Google is the very popular YouTube, which has attracted thousands of users ever since its beginnings in 2005.

The vlog working principles are less complex than those specific to a regular blog, though the basics are alike. For instance, if you join a video blog community, you’ll need your own channel, and signing up is usually required in order to be able to follow the rest of the necessary steps. Once you have a channel, you can simply organize the favorite shows, videos or podcasts from everywhere in the world or simply load and send them across the web. Ipods, iPhones and iTunes are perfectly compatible with vlogs, so that you can pretty much take the web with you everywhere you go.

Make Money Blogging, Do you have a strategy?

Have you leaped into Internet marketing with your blog and you’re still kind of fuzzy on what’s next? I know if you are new, you probably have. If you have some experience, you might be like me and sometimes get deterred or distracted from your objectives.

I have found that my success has been enhanced by breaking down my strategy in to categories.

Strategy 1 is based on my need to stay on top of the latest trends and products.

• I keep a list of areas that I feel I need to enhance my knowledge an I am willing to invest.
• I have a budget that I am willing to pay which is generally under $100.
• I try to find honest reviews before purchasing on places like the Warrior Forum
• If  I sign up for the recurring billing items like club membership’s I make sure to save all the contact info so I can cancel if it is not beneficial. Even then I make it a practice to  give it at most 3-6 months if they don’t keep the info fresh and updated with new ideas.
• I remain on the email lists of the creators of the products I have purchased looking for free stuff that I know will be offered and for new products.  I almost always review what they offer.
• I use the  The “Cost Of No” Strategy for myself.  The “think it costs too much? What is the cost of not…” strategy tells allows me to analyse if  the cost of not gaining the desired benefit could cost me way more.

Strategy 2 is more like a task list of what I have to accomplish on a daily basis but also involves the strategy I use to market products.

Daily:

• Morning’s are for putting the schedule together for the day.
• I modify one of the many articles I have gotten from my purchased from the article products I bought and I submit them to numerous Article directories. 
• I make a blog post on at least two of my money blogs ( I have 5).  Often I use one of the articles for the particular niche from the thousands I got from my purchases. 
• I monitor the Warrior Forum for new ideas and product offerings.
• I check my Google Analytics statistics.  This has turned out to be a great source for seeing what long tail keywords people are using to find my sights.  I use these with the Google Sniper techniques I bought.
• Post blog posts to various shared directories.

Once a Week (usually Saturday mornings with my coffee )

• I read other blogs to check out other ideas and site designs and make comments to obtain linkbacks.
• I re-read the materials from the products I own for new ideas or things I might have missed.
• I read through the offerings that I have gotten via email during the week.
• Check my clickbank accounts for earnings and traffic statistics to adjust.
• Make note of any interesting looking niches to create a new blog.

Monthly

• Usually once a month I spend an entire day searching for a new niche to create a new blog within my notes, my purchased sources and clickbank.  
• I revisit Google Sniper because it has a wealth of knowledge for starting a new niche blog and I always get a refresher.
• Create a new niche blog using the Blogging to the Bank and Google Sniper techniques.

Basically the key for word for most business owners is discipline.  Get into a routine and be patient.  This stuff works but not overnight!

 There are a lot of wonderful WordPress plugins that are FREE to use that enhance your ability to make money blogging.

You can go to Google or your favorite search engine and do a search for FREE wordpress plugins and there are many choices that
you will see.

One thing I learned from my Google Sniper purchase is that if you want to increase traffic and really make money blogging, there are 2
essential plugins that your need to install into your wordpress blog.  Each on of these plugins also provide installation steps and great support.
 
The First one is named the All in One SEO Pack and helps to optimize your blog for search engines.

The Second one is named Google Sitemap Generator which creates a sitemap for Google and helps with SEO.

These two plugins I found from other sources and chose to use them to enhance traffic to my money blogs.

The first  one is named Sociable which allows users to share posts with the rest of the world.

The second one is named Subscriber2and allows user to sign up easily and receive updates when I make posts.  Check out the sign-up on the right side of this blog for an example.

Firstly, we all want to know How to Make Money Online, and one of the best ways I have found is by creating blogs. In this post I intend to show you how you too can learn How to Make Money Blogging by telling you how combining the techniques I have gathered from across the web helps to make me $$$ every day. Secondly, I am not trying to sell you my latest “Get Rich Quick” scheme because I don’t have one. Each eBook you read will have a wealth of information within them which will, without a doubt help you to discover the secrets of How to Make Money Online. I am only going to tell you which ones out of the 100′s available you SHOULD read if you too want to make lots of money.

I use a 10 step guide to setting up and starting all of my blogs.

I will give you a list of the top 7  resources later that I use and recommend to everyone who is serious about making lots of money online. One of the vital aspects people seem to miss out when they first get into blogging is the fact that their blog must contain information that people want to read.

Many bloggers are looking through closed eyes in this regard and if you browse through 50 blogs you will notice that most will tell you they know How to Make Money with Blogs when really all they tell you is where they went on their vacation or how many cars they have.

Are you ready to learn How to Make Money Blogging?

If the answer is YES then read on and start to make money with your blog. I am not here to tell you how to write your blog, that’s up to you, but what I am about to tell you is the 10 things I use to make money on the internet. You can choose to use these techniques or not, that’s your prerogative.

Step 1 – Finding a Topic

Turn off your computer, grab a pen and some paper and sit somewhere you can relax but also stay focused (if you are just starting out this step can be a pain because we all want to know How to Make Money Online and we want to know how to make it NOW). Think of a topic you are interested in and write it down (this helps because you will be more committed to trying instead of giving up in a day or two) and also make sure it is something other people are interested in too. A couple of ways I use to think of a topic is by using MetaSpy to find out what people are searching for, Ask IQ to find what’s popular and VRE Toolbar to find out how many people search for the topic (this is also useful later on to get traffic). Write down your top five keywords, you will want to use them later in your blog.

Step 2 – Create Your Blog

Find and create your blog online. I like to use Wordpress but other popular Blog platforms are Blogger and Movable Type. You can find all the help in the program you use to get information when setting up the blog. Create your content, make it original, and make it informative. This is one of the main keys to learn How to Make Money with Blogs. You need to include the keywords you wrote down in Step 1 in the content of your blog. Try not to overuse these as it sends out bad signals to the search engines, and this is 100% not what you want.

Step 3 – Go Google

Sign up for Google Adsense and insert the code in the margin of your blog. You can customize your ads in many ways, such as including text links or image links. I prefer the text links only, as they are easier to blend in with your blog and don’t take the focus away from the information. Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money.

If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.

You will also want to add your URL to Google’s index.

Step 4 – Find Something to Sell

If you don’t want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. A couple of affiliate programs I would suggest are ClickBank and Commission Junction. You can sell anything from office furniture, pet supplies, movies and clothing to PC games, Dieting tips and Audio software.

Step 5 – Social Bookmarking

There is no better advertising than word of mouth, but the next best thing is social bookmarking. You will want to make things easier for people to do this. Social bookmarking sites I use and recommend are OnlyWire and SocialMarker and they are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

Step 6 – Write an Article

Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

Submit your article to any of the 100′s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.

Step 7 – Ping The Heck Out Of It

Every time you add new information to your blog, you want to let the blog directories know about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do this manually too. ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.

There are a couple of Ping sites I use which will send a ping to multiple blog directories at the same time. PingMyBlog would be my first port of call and then if for some reason that site is down I would use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted, and that is bad.

Step 8 – Yahoo! Answers and Forums

One of the easiest ways to get targeted visitors to your blog is to make use of the people you want to target. I would suggest you sign up to at LEAST one forum in the topic you are writing about, and don’t just go straight in there and start posting comments for people to look at your blog, they won’t.

The secret is to add the link to your blog in your signature and actively become a member of the forum, posting relevant topics and starting debates within them. The more you post, the more your link will show, and if you provide someone with good info the chances are higher they will click your link.

Yahoo! Answers is along the same lines as forums but the beauty of this is it’s viewed by thousands of visitors each day. If you don’t already have a Yahoo! account get one and then login and search for questions relating to the topic of your blog and answer them well. You can then insert the link to your blog and as with the forums, if you answer well you may have not only earned yourself a point or two on Yahoo!, but also earned a visitor to your blog.

Step 9 – Update Your Blog

This can be by several means, one is to add new reviews or content to your blog, and if you are going to do this I suggest updating every couple of days. This helps to keep the search engines happy as they love to see new and original content.

Another way of updating your blog and keeping the content fresh is to add RSS feeds to it. Make sure the feeds are relevant to your blog and provide visitors with helpful information. Visitors to a World of Warcraft blog don’t want to read feeds about knitting, or do they?

Step 10 – More, More, More

Repeat steps 1 – 10, this is the only way How to Make Money Blogging.

Step 11 – A Bonus Step

If you have your own product or newsletter, give your visitors an easy way to sign up to receive updates or information. This helps you to contact the visitor again with more great info or products you wish to sell.

How to Make Money Online is easy if you follow the above steps.

Some important things to remember so you don’t get disheartened with your blog is the fact that you will not become a millionaire overnight, it takes hard work and a lot of effort. If you are really serious about learning How to Make Money with Blogs then stick with it and eventually you will have an Ah-Ha moment. This is when things start to work and you think to yourself Ah-Ha, that’s how they do it. Your moment could be sooner than you think.

My Top 7 resources I use and recommend are:

How To Blog For Money Blogging Software and SEO Training (Step by Step Instruction)

2. Mass Article Control (Submitter and Creator)

Host Your Make Money Blog

1. blueHost – Hosting Solution

Make Money Blogging Coaching and Niche Marketing Ideas

1. Maverick Money Makers Club

Promote your Make Money Blog with Socal Bookmarking

1. Social Bookmarking Automation Software and Blog Comment Software

See Also:

10 Ways To Increase The Pageviews of Your Make Money Blog